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Desktop Client Software
This page is a collection of desktop client software packages that are known to work with HylaFAX. If you see something missing here, please feel free to add it! For the sake of fairness, software has been listed in alphabetical order. Please respect this convention when you make additions. The year of the most recent update is in brackets (as of Apr 13,2009)
See also Web Based Faxing and other Related Software.
- AdiXein HFC: Free software to integrate HylaFAX and Microsoft Outlook! (2008)
- Faxfrontend: Fax from a Debian desktop (2007)
- Fax90 OS X: Free Mac OS X Hylafax Client (2009)
- Frog FaxMail: Free Windows Hylafax Client (2008)
- GFax: GNOME Facsimile Program (2006)
- HylaFAXSender: Java fax client, tested on Mac OS X and Linux
- hylapex: A multi-platform client written in python (2008)
- IGSuite Integrated Groupware Suite (2008)
- JHylaFAX: Sleek platform independent client written in Java (2007)
- KHylafax (2001)
- Macflex (1996?)
- Pyla: A multi-platform client Written in Python with Ldap integration (2007).
- Respond/PrintFax (2006) Development ended.
- SDfax: Mac software to send fax via TPC.int, which uses HylaFAX (unable to connect).
- Smbfax: Print to a faxmodem on your Samba server via HylaFAX (2003).
- Print to fax OS Independent faxing by printing to a network printer, adapted from "Sambafax" (2009)
- SpoolFax: A middleware for faxing from applications (2003)
- SuSefax: Java client to HylaFAX, is part of the SuSE Linux distribution (?)
- Tkhylafax (unable to connect)
- VMFP: Virtual MultiFunction Printer is an LPD text filter. It extracts fax/e-mail destinations embedded in document and routes PostScript printer data from printer spooler to faxsend (2011)
- WHFC: A windows client for HylaFAX (2010; 32-bit OS only, Win7 not tested)
- W2hfax: Client for Windows 95/98 and NT 4.0 (2005)
- Winflex: 16-bit fax client for the Windows 3.11 platform, but note it uses the old protocol (unable to connect).
- Winprint HylaFAX: A simple-to-use Windows printer client (2008)
- Winprint HylaFAX for Windows 7: A simple-to-use Windows printer client - add support Windows 7 (2011, 32/64 bit)
- Winprint HylaFAX Reloaded: A simple-to-use Windows printer client - supports Windows 7 32/64 bit. Can send multiple documents as one single fax (2011). Handy installer.
- YajHFC: Yet another Java HylaFAX client. Runs under Windows, Linux, BSD and Mac OS X. Multi-language: English, French, German, Italian, Russian, Spanish and Turkish. Integrates "fax printer" for Windows 2000/XP/Vista (2009)
- Hylidae PDE is a Printing Dialog Extension for Mac OS X which relies on Hylidae as web-based interface and its REST-API (unable to connect)
- FaxFinder® Multi-Tech FaxFinder® client software compatible with HylaFAX but non documented. All Windows versions are supported (2010)
- fax4CUPS: A fax back end for CUPS. The script requires a fax back end to be chosen between efax, a simple but effective fax management program, HylaFAX, a sophisticated server-based fax handling system, CapiSuite, an ISDN telecommunication suite, and mgetty-fax (Unix/Lunix) (2011).
- Cypheus [last release: 28 Sep, 2007; beware sporadic application crashes]
- facsBridge T37FSP Fully integrated into Windows Fax Service (Windows Shared Fax) looks like it's part of Windows. Requires a bit of mail-to-fax configuration on HylaFAX.
- HylaFAX-Client: Windows Client Free 30 day evaluation! Full Featured. Ready for Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows Terminal Server 2003 / 2008 32bit and 64bit. Works with HylaFAX 6.X.X
- HylaFAX-SendFAX: Windows Client Free 30 day evaluation! Print to Fax Wizard, looks like Windows Fax. Ready for Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7 and Windows Terminal Server 2003 / 2008 32bit and 64bit. Works with HylaFAX 6.X.X
- HermesFAX: Web interface for Hylafax
- HyFAX: Windows Client, easy to use, fax catalog and addressbook in MySQL, support and documentation in Italian language. The version "base" it is completely free. Ready for Windows XP, Windows 7 32 and 64 Bit.
- HylaFSP: Professional, easy to use "Print to fax" for Windows 2000/2003/XP/Vista/2003 Terminal Services. Free 30-day evaluation!
- Hylafx Printer A simple to install/use Windows printer client. [last release: 19 oct 2007; superceded by FantomFax (below)]
- MacHylafax Mac OS X Client, free 14 day evaluation.
- iNODE FRA a hylafax 32bit client for Windows Vista/XP/2000 integrated with Windows Fax Services. The client is licensed to be used only by iNODE, a low cost, hylafax based, enterprise class, commercial communications server product.
- FaxClient HylaFAX Client for Windows 9x/NT/2K/XP/7... , free 30 day evaluation. Supports phonebooks via LDAP, ODBC or text files.
- FantomFax Windows HylaFAX Client, easy to use as Virtual Printer, Virtual Modem or COM-object. [last release: 13 aug 2009]


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Police search for alleged shooter
East Baton Rouge sheriff's detectives searched late Saturday for a man accused of shooting another man in the leg on Richey Drive, a sheriff's spokesman said.
Cody "Crucial" Mack, 25, no address given, is wanted on counts of attempted second-degree murder, felon in possession of a firearm and illegal use of a weapon, Casey Rayborn Hicks said in a news release.
The victim went to a residence in the 7000 block of Richey Drive at 3:42 a.m. Saturday and knocked on the door, Hicks said.
Mack allegedly opened the door and shot the victim in the leg, Hicks said.
The victim was taken to a hospital for treatment of non-life threatening injuries, Hicks said.
The victim and friends of Mack allegedly had been feuding, Hicks said.
Anyone with information concerning this incident or Mack's whereabouts is asked to contact the East Baton Rouge Sheriff's Office at (225) 389-5000 or Crime Stoppers anonymously at (225) 344-STOP (7867).
Police: Man arrested in stabbing
Police arrested a 59-year-old man accused of stabbing a friend in the chest with a steak knife after the two argued, an arrest document shows.
Baton Rouge Police arrested Terry L. Boyd Sr. on Friday on counts of attempted second-degree murder and illegal use of a weapon, an arrest affidavit shows.
Boyd, 2720 Alaska St., No. 62, is accused of inflicting a life-threatening wound to the victim Dec. 19 while the two were drinking beer as part of a group on Terrace Avenue, the document shows.
The victim told police that as he stood up after picking up his beer from the ground, Boyd stabbed him in the right side of the chest.
Boyd remains in Parish Prison, a prison spokeswoman said. His bond is set at $100,000.
Fire departments extinguish blaze
Baton Rouge and St. George fire departments quickly extinguished an accidental third-story apartment fire Friday night at Regency Club Apartments, 11555 Southfork Drive, a St. George spokesman said.
Units from both departments began arriving seven minutes after receiving the call at 8:46 p.m. and found no one when they forced their way inside Apt. 3038, spokesman Eldon Ledoux said in a news release. He said the living area of the apartment was engulfed in flames.
Firefighters gained control of the fire at 9:02 p.m. and reported no injuries, the release says.
The apartment and its contents were severely damaged and the apartment immediately below received minor water damage, the release says.
8 arrested on suspicion of DWI
Authorities arrested at least eight people suspected of driving while intoxicated in East Baton Rouge Parish and booked them into Parish Prison between 2:30 p.m. Friday and 2:30 p.m. Saturday, booking records show.
Those booked and the counts against them:
- Felicia Carpenter, 24, 1904 Carolyn Ave., Denham Springs, second-offense DWI, following too close, text messaging prohibited and motor vehicle inspection required.
- John Duffy, 24, 17827 Cascades Ave., Baton Rouge, first-offense DWI, failure to yield/left turn and reckless operation.
- Holly Fisher, 25, 15711 Ferrell Ave., Baton Rouge, first-offense DWI, reckless operation and speeding.
- Nathaniel Hodges, 23, 18483 S. Harrell's Ferry Road, Baton Rouge, first-offense DWI and reckless operation.
- Jodie Mayers, 30, 7954 Acadiana Ave., Denham Springs, first-offense DWI and failure to maintain control.
- Carl McAlister, 26, 3630 Poplar St., Slaughter, first-offense DWI, driver's license suspended or revoked, failure to maintain control and fugitive from justice.
- John Ramirez, 22, 588 Oak Ave., C, Harahan, second-offense, reckless operation and driver's license suspended/revoked.
- Keith Wilson, 43, 16847 Centurion Ave., Baton Rouge, first-offense and disobeying a red light.
Compiled from staff reports. To talk to a crime reporter at The Advocate, call (225) 388-0369.

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She won Victoria's Secret first and only national model search in 2009. Since then, Kylie Bisutti, unlike other Victoria's Secret models, remained out of the tabloids - until Wednesday.
In a provocative book excerpt published in the Post this week, the 23-year-old model dished why she "quit being a VS model to be a Proverbs 31 wife" - as she had Tweeted last year.
From feeling like a "piece of meat," to being told by a company exec that she "should get together" with a celebrity who had interest in her, Bisutti said being a Victoria's Secret model went against her life as a Christian, along with her marriage, which she was required to "play down."
"That's when it hit me," she wrote. "I was being paid to strip down and pose provocatively to titillate men. It wasn't about modeling clothes anymore; I felt like a piece of meat."
"The next day, I broke down and started sobbing. I was in my bedroom and dropped to my knees and started to pray. 'God, why did you have me win the Victoria's Secret Angel competition if it was going to make me feel this way? I'm not honoring my husband. I just want answers!'"
Bisutti subsequently quit to "reserve her body" for her husband, and in the process, gave up a lucrative future in modeling which could have lead to a multimillion-dollar deal in the industry. She currently lives in Montana with her husband, Mike, and their son, Noah.
In a statement released to People magazine Thursday evening, Victoria's Secret responded:
"Ms. Bisutti has made numerous fabrications and misstatements of fact regarding her brief association with Victoria's Secret. In 2009, Ms. Bisutti won an online amateur modeling competition and hasn't worked for us since that year. The prize for the winning contestant was the unique opportunity to a one-time walk in the 2009 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show. Ms. Bisutti also participated in a swim photo shoot in 2009. That was the extent of Ms. Bisutti's involvement with Victoria's Secret. She was never a Victoria's Secret 'Angel' as defined by the terms of our Angel model contract. And contrary to Ms. Bisutti's claims, she was never offered any subsequent modeling contracts or opportunities with Victoria's Secret despite her multiple appeals for further work. She has repeatedly fabricated her work experience with Victoria's Secret — including a relationship that simply did not exist."
Bisutti's book, "I'm No Angel: From Victoria's Secret Model to Role Model," will be released on May 14.


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- Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream
- Narrated by: David Platt
- Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Release date: 18-06-2010
- Language: English
- Publisher: christianaudio.com
- Whispersync for Voice-ready
Regular price: $29.44
Publisher's Summary
It's easy for American Christians to forget how Jesus said his followers would actually live, what their new lifestyle would actually look like. They would, he said, leave behind security, money, convenience, even family for him. They would abandon everything for the gospel. They would take up their crosses daily...BUT WHO DO YOU KNOW WHO LIVES LIKE THAT? DO YOU?
In Radical, David Platt challenges you to consider with an open heart how we have manipulated the gospel to fit our cultural preferences. He shows what Jesus actually said about being his disciple--then invites you to believe and obey what you have heard. And he tells the dramatic story of what is happening as a "successful" suburban church decides to get serious about the gospel according to Jesus. Finally, he urges you to join in The Radical Experiment: a one-year journey in authentic discipleship that will transform how you live in a world that desperately needs the Good News Jesus came to bring.
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- O-Coaster
- 13-02-2012
Cutting Through The Fluff
What did you love best about Radical?
I have been challenged to the core of my being by the message that David Platt brings. The challenge is clear and do-able. What a wake up call to the Church in North America!! Rather than continuing to insulate ourselves from the real needs of the world by building self-congratulating works that only show love to those who already love us back, Platt challenges us to overlay the Gospel with our lives to see if anything shines through. Jesus' commission is ours. If we fail to take it up, God will use someone else, but we will not see the reward nor have the fellowship with Him in its realization.
I'm not a Calvinist, but that doesn't really matter. The call of Jesus to His Church is exactly the same. Things that I've been blind to in the past, David has helped me see with crystal clarity for what they are. No Christian should be afraid to listen to this book, nor should we try to explain it away by a differing theology. As a CPA, I'm particularly challenged to live below my means and invest the money of this world to make eternal friends.
This is not an ivory tower exposition of the necessity of being active in the Church. It's also not a pastor trying to lay a guilt trip on his people to get them to do something. Instead, it is a call from one laborer in the Master's vineyard to another to be diligently about the Master's business. It's always been interesting to look at Paul's designation of himself as a bondservant of Christ. This book helped me see that status as my own and realise that I no longer belong to myself. I am Christ's, and He has priority over anything else.
This is a brave book in that it didn't comfort me in my current situation and congratulate me on how well I may be doing. Instead, Platt looks at the commands of Jesus and the claim of God on my life. He doesn't claim any supernatural knowledge of my situation, but he lays out the Biblical mandate and basically says,
Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?
The 5-point challenge is worth the price of the book. Very worthwhile reading.
Any additional comments?
After 8 hours of listening to Mr. Platt, one might tire of his emphatic delivery. Please don't let that dissuade you from listening. He does a very commendable job of reading and the message is so compelling that the emphasis of each point is important.
14 of 15 people found this review helpful
- Joshua
- 18-06-2012
Declare War on American Religiosity
This Book is written as a wake-up call to American Christianity to separate their faith and what the Bible teaches from what we have learned from our society. I probably wouldn't have chosen this title for the book, since the word "radical" has become associated with so much negativity and violence, specifically radical Islam and all that has brought in the last decade. The book's subtitle would have done a better job as the title, as this is literally an assault on what we refer to as the American dream (or Nightmare, more aptly). And this is a good thing, especially according to the author.
While this book certainly isn't the last word on the subject, it speaks a lot about how Christians view money, time, and how different the Bible is from our American lifestyle. The amazing thing is that the concepts he advocates are not really radical at all, but are things that we clearly see Christians doing in the Bible, and still see in other countries around the world. I think this book illustrates how far we have fallen and how far we still have to go if we want to truly live out a biblical view of Christianity and reach the world for Christ.
This is definitely a hard book for many Christians in America to deal with. It is spot on in so many ways. I wish it could inspire even a fraction of us to change. That is probably the purpose. Truly it let's you see what could happen if all Christians began acting like those in the New Testament.
I think that, more than simply can be gained from reading this book, I would recommend actually traveling to another country to see what Christianity is like there. a lot of the concepts that you read here, I think, you would begin to see on your own simply by experiencing what life is like for others out there. I know I have seen from my travels in Asia and other parts of the world how differently other Christians live and how much more dedicated they are than the average American. What place does American patriotism have in the life of a Christian, who is called to go throughout the world and preach the Gospel? It's time to stop thinking about how great the United States is, and think about how we can make God's Kingdom great throughout the whole world. I particularly loved how he stated at so many people ask God what His will is for their life, when His Word is so clear that he wants us to reach the world for Christ. so if you are hesitating over whether or not you should go on a missions trip to give to missions or give your time to helping the poor or needy, it's time to stop wondering can just do it. The rewards are well worth it.
6 of 6 people found this review helpful
- Timothy
- 02-12-2010
American Indeed
I am an American evangelical, but have been living in Scotland for the last year. In a lot of ways I experienced reverse culture shock listening to this book. I have not heard the words "American" "biblical" and "Birmingham" so many times in my life. Platt is right that the book is very much written to Americans. Megachurches that look like Wal-Mart and have more money than they know what to do with do not exist over here.
Nonetheless, it was a very challenging book. Platt is very passionate about what he believes. I don't think he ever quite reconciled the concept of being a megachurch pastor in the midst of a book that was in a lot of ways a megachurch castigation. He tried at times, but is having trouble fitting in his context.
I found his call to pray for the nations continually challenging. Although the review was largely critical, I think this book is a good call of a passionate pastor to share the gospel.
13 of 15 people found this review helpful
- Jason D. Camp
- 27-10-2010
I would highly recommend this book if you are interested in being convicted about how we "do" church and our Christian walk. We NEED Jesus and we don't live that way at all in America. I am being convicted...
10 of 12 people found this review helpful
- david
- 28-08-2012
Are you ready...
Would you listen to Radical again? Why?
Great book... This book will either turn you off or make you truly examine yourself.
What other book might you compare Radical to and why?
Not a Fan...
What about David Platt's performance did you like?
Read his own book... Really good job.
Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
Deep examination
5 of 6 people found this review helpful
- Gaosheng
- 10-11-2010
Eye opener.....for the Glory of God
We are challenged as disciples of Christ. We have a duty to Him. He is - IS - worth it. This author uses the bible to explain what it is God wants us to do for Him, and I've found this subject not be such a popular sermon in church, but he def speaks the truth. And it's all over the Bible. Verrrry moving and inspiring....to get out of the rut alot of Christians are in. I am deeply moved.
5 of 6 people found this review helpful
- Ray
- 29-09-2011
Theology distorted
This book wasn't for you, but who do you think might enjoy it more?
Wow. Where to begin without being hyper-critical, judgmental, or insincere? I'm not sure I can do that without appearing to be those things. I wish I could just share my heart without criticizing this book to get a message across.
As Pastor Platt opened, I'll also open. I'm a layperson who has been a Christ Follower since I was 12. In the past 45 years, my family has served on two international mission fields, two local churches, and many small study and prayer groups. I've never been to seminary and am a professor at a community college. Cars are paid for (and one is a decade old), no credit cards have balances, and we live within our means in a 3 BR ranch home in the suburbs. In International Standards, we're mega-rich.
Pastor Pratt starts his book with his credentials as the youngest pastor of a mega-church and a seminary-trained minister.
Pastor Platt's premise that in order to live Biblically, we must give away what we own, live as minimalists, leave America to spread the message of Christ around the world, and abandon our "mega-churchs, performances, and programs" is a sweeping and completely unfounded damnation of millions of Christians in the United States.
His Biblical example of the Rich Young Ruler is a primary foundation for the "command" that we give away our stuff. This was an instruction to a NON-BELIEVER because he worshipped his STUFF more than he was willing to worship GOD. This was not a command to everyone, and certainly never a requirement for salvation. In fact, our material wealth is never a condition of salvation - whether we've got a lot, a little, or none.
In fact, Lazarus was never commanded to sell his home, which Jesus stayed in often. Solomon, David, Moses, Jacob, were all blessed with material wealth. None of them worshipped their possessions, and Pastor Platt doesn't mention their leadership as a model for how we should treat our possessions. Joseph of Arimathia was wealthy enough to own a tomb. Jesus certainly didn't tell him to sell that. And tithing is never encouraged in this book.
In fact, dozens of references to homes, cars, clothes, and things are sarcastically lamented as non-Christian demonstrations of our self-centeredness, and that if we keep these things instead of giving to the international poor, we should question our own salvation. He turns his sarcasm and biting tone to worship style, buildings, and programs too. In fact, he writes that it's a sin to build a $12 million dollar sanctuary and only send $5,000 to foreign aid to feed starving people. His damnation of that paltry sum is never juxtaposed with the decades of service such a building may provide as a venue for tens of thousands of hungry SOULS to learn about Christ. He also doesn't mention that those hungry people will be hungry again tomorrow unless something changes in their country, their government leaders, their cultures, and their economies. He has no suggestions on how we Christians should address that.
This is the same kind of "Spiritual Abuse" as the "Health and Wealth" theology spewed by some popular evangelists, except we are told that we are guilty of abhorrent sin when we have stuff instead of poverty. We're further instructed to leave where God placed us in ministry (especially if you're in a mega-church, a church with programs, or a church with many services, bands, and visual arts.) If that is our "misguided" understanding of Jesus' desire for our ministry, then we are living sinfully and not within the Word according to Pastor Platt.
I reject nearly every argument people present if they first consider it necessary to bash the predecessors responsible for whatever they want to change before they can present the merits of their proposal. Making someone else look bad in order for me to look good isn't taught by Jesus either.
The maintenance committee leader who criticizes the prior painter a decade earlier before he can propose we paint our sanctuary again is just wrong. The treasurer who must point out all the difficulties of working with the prior bookkeeper before recommending we change our procedures is misleading. The pastor who tells me I'm living sinfully worshipping in my church before telling me I need to go overseas to help people in "secret church" learn about Jesus is manipulative. Pastor Platt does not appear to stand on Biblical truth as his foundation. He builds his case on the backs of what he perceives is wrongful worship and false salvation.
So, I reject this premise as being manipulative, totally out of context with Biblical truth, and yet another "Theology of Works" approach to Christianity.
If this were contextually written, Pastor Platt would have written at least one time about tithing. He'd have mentioned at least once the promise of Blessings in both Old and New Testaments. He'd have at least acknowledged that we know that not ALL will know Christ. And he'd at least devoted some portion of a chapter expounding love, compassion, and service as Biblical motivation to follow his prescription for practicing our faith. Instead, we get guilt, works, and theological abuse.
Bummer. I really don't like writing such criticism.
Would you ever listen to anything by David Platt again?
Not sure, but that would stand on its own merit.
Would you be willing to try another one of David Platt's performances?
Not really interested.
What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?
Extreme scepticism
Any additional comments?
So sorry to write such criticism.
66 of 90 people found this review helpful
- Guy
- 05-11-2010
If you don't want your toes stepped on don't read!
I have both read Radical and listened to the audio version. The advantage of the hard copy was to highlight key thoughts and quotes. Almost every page of my personal copy is marked! The advantage of the audio version is being able to hear the passion in David Platt's voice as he warns of our making "Jesus as one who brings us comfort and prosperity as we live out our Christian spin on the American dream." This is a convicting read and caused me to take stock with what we are doing with our lives and resources entrusted to us.
12 of 16 people found this review helpful
- Daniel
- 01-05-2013
Read the book instead
Any additional comments?
I'm really sorry to post a negative review here, but David Platt should stick to writing and delegate the narration. Some really good points made here, but brutally sabotaged by poor sound.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
- Claude
- 30-01-2013
Clear, Decisive and Biblical Instruction.
Would you listen to Radical again? Why?
Yes, in fact, I must listen to it again. There is so much critical scriptural information for the follower of Jesus here one needs to know both about themselves and those around them.
Any additional comments?
Anyone belonging to Jesus needs to go through the process revealed in this book and commit to their response to the truth. To do less is to be flagging in the storm instead of knowing your direction and why you are going in that way.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama supports compromise legislation holding down interest rates on student loans and was involved in Senate negotiations, a senior administration official said on Thursday.
Senators reached a deal on Wednesday to temporarily hold interest rates on student loans at lower levels, as they raced to get the measure completed before an August deadline, a Senate aide said.
A Democratic official said the measure would not raise money from charging students higher rates and would set a cap to protect students from future rate increases.
Interest rates on new federal Stafford loans doubled to 6.8 percent this month when lawmakers failed to meet a July 1 deadline to prevent an automatic increase.
According to details of the Senate plan that were available late Wednesday, students would see interest rates dialed back to 3.4 percent for a couple of years, after which rates could be allowed to rise sharply.
Undergraduates would see loans go as high as 8.25 percent after 2015, graduates would face rates as high as 9.5 percent, and parents would face rates as high as 10.5 percent.
(Reporting by Mark Felsenthal; Editing by Vicki Allen)


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Infectious Diseases Fellowship ProgramThe largest infectious diseases fellowship program in New York City: 2-year and 3-year training options providing active clinical, teaching, and research experience for infectious diseases fellows.
CoursesInfectious Diseases CME courses: Infectious Diseases Board Review Course, HIV Management New York Course, Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, Microbial Pathogenesis, Parasitology & Global Medicine.
Conferences, Meetings, and RoundsA listing of regular meetings including fellowship core curriculum lectures, research seminars, grand rounds, and journal club.
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Centers for Disease Control
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Star Wars/Disney mashups have been flooding the Internet ever since the news of Lucasfilm's sale to the House of Mouse. But Gale Williams' comic is particularly clever in the way it uses Disney/Pixar/Marvel media to respond to Vader's grand paternal revelation. The Lion King ending is especially grand, since Darth Vader (or at least James Earl Jones) actually is Simba's dad.
[Patbird & Galesaur via Oh Yeah Comics]


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Crisis of poor quality medicines being used as an excuse to push up prices for poor
The proliferation of substandard, dangerous medicines in poor countries is being used by rich countries as an excuse to tighten intellectual property rules, boosting the profits of large pharmaceutical companies while making it harder for poor people to get access to the medicines they need, according to a report published today by international agency Oxfam.
Eye on the Ball, launched at a high-level conference hosted by INTERPOL and the World Intellectual Property Organization in Paris, argues that improved regulation of medicines by poor countries, not enforcement of intellectual property rules, is the best way to ensure safe, effective, quality medicines.
More than 2 billion people lack regular access to affordable and quality medicines. The World Health Organization estimates that 30 per cent of countries have no functioning drug regulatory authorities. While there is no conclusive data regarding the prevalence of substandard and falsified medicines in the developing world, studies indicate that in some countries as much as 44 per cent of certain types of medicines, such as anti-malarials, are substandard.
Rich countries express concern about this real threat to public health, but they propose actions that will do little to address this problem. Specifically, they propose the enactment in poor countries of expanded intellectual property rules to reduce the availability of counterfeit products that criminally infringe trademarks. Yet anti-counterfeit measures are limited in scope and fail to address the broader public health problem of substandard and falsified medicines which pose a danger to public health but do not necessarily infringe intellectual property rights. Worse, new anti-counterfeit measures will stifle the production of and trade in low-cost generic medicines.
Invest in better drug regulation – not anti-counterfeit measures
Oxfam is calling on rich countries to abandon their focus on expanded intellectual property protection and instead provide funds to support drug regulation in poor countries.
Rohit Malpani, Oxfam senior policy adviser, said: "Poor countries are facing a crisis of substandard and falsified medicines that can harm or even kill those who take them.
"Yet rather than help poor countries address the problem to ensure safe, effective and quality medicines for all, rich countries are putting commercial interests ahead of public health in these countries.
"The European Union and the United States continue to focus almost exclusively on eliminating counterfeit medicines which form only a small part of this public health problem – but which are a serious concern for their multinational companies. They have used the crisis in medicine quality in developing countries as an excuse to push for new intellectual property rules that will boost the profits of pharmaceutical giants at the expense of affordable medicines for the poor."
ACTA and IMPACT among harmful initiatives
The European Union is especially culpable of pushing for stricter levels of IP protection that would limit access to medicines. In many cases, these efforts have been supported – both tacitly and overtly – by the multinational pharmaceutical industry.
The report highlights several of these harmful initiatives, including the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, industry pressure to change intellectual property laws in Kenya and Thailand, and continuing negotiation of new anti-counterfeit measures at the World Health Organization through an initiative known as IMPACT.
Malpani said: "At a time when poor countries struggle to ensure that their populations can get affordable, quality medicines it is outrageous that rich countries and drug companies are pushing 'solutions' that will do more harm than good to patients and public health. It is critical that poor countries ignore rich-country pressure, and focus instead on solutions that will ensure both quality and affordability of medicines. While poor countries must continue to fight against efforts to introduce new intellectual property rules, they must also find ways to both invest in, and attract investments to create, well-functioning drug regulatory authorities."
Read more
Download the report: Eye on the Ball: Medicine regulation – not IP enforcement – can best deliver quality medicines
Oxfam's Health and Education campaign
Notes to editors
- Substandard medicines
- Substandard medicines are medicines that do not meet quality standards or scientific specifications for the product as defined under World Health Organization guidelines. They may contain the wrong type or concentration of ingredient, or they may have deteriorated during distribution in the supply chain and thus become ineffective and dangerous.
- Falsified medicines
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What a week for the Los Altos High girls soccer team. The Eagles opened it by clipping Saratoga 1-0, capped it with a 2-0 win over Monta Vista and tied rival Mountain View 2-all in between.
Los Altos improved to 2-0-1 in the SCVAL De Anza Division and 4-1-2 overall.
Julia Goupil's first-half penalty kick beat Saratoga Jan. 7. Sophia Hyver scored on a header Friday against Monta Vista (assist Allie Crum) and her deflected shot earlier in the game led to a goal by Tess Wendelken. Crum and Stephanie Kouvelas tallied first-half goals versus Mountain View Jan. 9. The Spartans scored in the second half on shots by Dana Camin and Ysabel Balyuot (assists Erica Higa).
"We ended the game outshooting LA 15-6, but LA played a strong game and made it difficult for us," Mountain View coach Ivan Bandov said.
Pinewood capped a three-win week by routing Eastside Prep 6-0 Saturday. Kelly Branson scored twice for Pinewood (5-0 West Bay Athletic League, 6-3-1 overall).
St. Francis shut out Sacred Heart Cathedral 7-0 Saturday in West Catholic Athletic League play. Annie Kingman and Katherine Bell paced the Lancers with three and two goals, respectively.
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Los Altos eked out a 2-1 De Anza Division win over Mountain View Jan. 9. Josh Stephens scored the Eagles' first goal and assisted on the second, a shot by Kunal Patel with 10 minutes left. Keenan Zucker scored for the Spartans.
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Boys basketball
Pinewood snapped a five-game losing streak by drubbing Crystal Springs 78-37 Friday behind 14 points from Greg Naumann. Owen Lewis and Kyle Murphy scored 13 each for the Panthers (1-3 WBAL, 6-6 overall).
Mountain View rallied in the fourth quarter to edge Milpitas 47-46 Jan. 8. Brian Kaestner totaled 22 points and Nick Wang 17 for the Spartans (2-1 De Anza Division, 7-7 overall).
Girls basketball
St. Francis topped Sacred Heart Cathedral 44-40 Saturday, getting 15 points from Shelbi Aimonetti and 11 from Kate Hoey.
The Lancers improved to 3-2 in the WCAL and 12-4 overall.


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Maverick: Ryan Rittenhouse sells T's, hoodies, trucker caps and even girls' panties under the Santa Cruz Surfing Club name.
Endless Bummer
When he trademarked the Santa Cruz Surfing Club name, Ryan Rittenhouse didn't know he was unleashing a battle royale between old friends and generations of surfers.
By Jessica Lussenhop
Robert Rittenhouse Sr., a tall and dignified 84-year-old with a neat part in his white hair, sits in the drafty warehouse offices of the Santa Cruz Surfing Club Inc., reminiscing about the business's namesake, the original 27-member club he started with his friends as teenagers in the 1930s.
"We were all kids," he says. "[At one point], the club thought, we should buy Cowell's Beach up there where the hotel was. We never knew anything about real estate, but we thought, gee, maybe Cowell would sell it."
He chuckles gravely.
"We went up to San Francisco and actually had enough nerve to find Cowell's office on Market Street. There was nobody in the office, and this guy came out and said, 'Can I help you?' And that's Henry Cowell," he continues. "He explained to us that his estate was all involved in other things and there was no way he could cut out a part of it and sell it to us."
He smiles faintly, eyes solemn behind his glasses. "That's one experience that shows you how much gall kids have."
As he talks, Rittenhouse's 26-year-old grandson Ryan is a flurry of activity in the background, busily printing and cutting out vinyl decals and answering phone calls under a sign that reads "Think Sales." Ryan Rittenhouse owns the company named after his grandfather's surfing club--an enterprise that has driven a wedge between old friends and landed grandfather and grandson in the middle of a heated legal battle over the Santa Cruz Surfing Club's legacy.
On the wall, Ryan has hung up a copy of the iconic surfing club photo--rights to which he secured in 2006, along with the trademark for the "Santa Cruz Surfing Club" name--showing 11 of the original members, grinning with their enormous wooden surf boards behind them. Third from the right is Harry Mayo, one of Rittenhouse Sr.'s closest friends. Mayo is a plaintiff in a lawsuit filed against Ryan in December. The complaint alleges that Ryan misrepresented himself in his trademark application and took advantage of Mayo in order to receive signed contracts for the photos and the club trademark.
What began as a simple plan to protect the Santa Cruz Surfing Club name from opportunistic outsiders has erupted into a war of words between three generations of Santa Cruz surfers, all of whom believe they have the club's best interest at heart. Though the suit has not gone to court, the damage to the 70-year-old friendships may already be irreparable.
"I'm disappointed. Just disappointed," is all Rittenhouse Sr. will say about his oldest friends. "There may be no original surfers that see the end of this if it goes to court."
The Boys of Summer
Harry Mayo isn't supposed to talk about the lawsuit. He's recuperating from open-heart surgery--a triple bypass--and is still rehabilitating. "I'm supposed to take it easy, and no stress," he says, and then admits, "I might get upset a little bit, once in a while."
That's not hard to imagine. Though Mayo is 85 years old and a bit hard of hearing, he is, for lack of a better word, feisty. And it's not as though it's easy to forget about what's going on with the club. His home is a veritable museum of SCSC memorabilia. He has black and white photos of himself and all the boys carefully framed and mounted on the walls throughout his home. He points to a partially obscured face in one photo. "There's Bob Rittenhouse in the background right there."
Mayo agrees that things with Rittenhouse Sr. have gotten strained, though both men immediately answer the same thing when asked about their favorite part of the surfing club: "camaraderie."
In 1936, the dues were 50 cents and they could store the 90-pound boards they made in wood shop at a member's house at Gharkey Street and Lighthouse Avenue. "We had a good time," says Mayo. "The city was wide open. It wasn't crowded. We could surf at Cowell's, we could surf at the Rivermouth, we could surf at Pleasure Point."
Mayo's photos tell it all. The boys surfed in old sweaters until they got too cold in those pre-wetsuit days. They did handstands in the sand for the girls and posed in their Santa Cruz Surfing Club T-shirts and sweatshirts--a members-only privilege.
Those carefree days ended when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor and the boys were plucked up into the service one by one. Though everyone survived, their luck was mixed. Mayo was stationed with the Coast Guard and got to surf every other day. Rittenhouse Sr. couldn't enlist because of his poor eyesight. Alex "Pinky" Pedemonte was nearly killed in a foxhole in France. When they returned, the club never gelled the way it had before. "After the war, you're a different person," says Rittenhouse Sr. "You don't have any time to lay on the beach."
The fire department got Mayo, Rittenhouse started a successful insurance company and other members scattered across the country in pursuit of work. Though war and distance broke up the club, nostalgia managed to bring them back together. The 50th reunion at the Coconut Grove in 1986, remembered quite fondly, led to the construction of the surfing statue in 1992. The original members also liked to volunteer on Fridays at the Santa Cruz Surfing Museum, which contains a good deal of their old memorabilia, including photos, surf boards and the old club apparel. Rittenhouse Sr. would bring his grandson along to hear the stories.
But as the years passed, the club ranks began to thin. Today, only 10 original members survive, seven still living in Santa Cruz. "We're getting older and passing away," says Mayo. "We want it to be remembered."
That simple sentiment started all the trouble.
Trouble in the Lineup
Though accounts vary on what exactly happened, all the factions can agree on one thing: there was a time when everyone involved saw eye-to-eye.
"Oh, absolutely," says Mayo when asked if things with Ryan Rittenhouse started out on friendly terms. "It was a win-win situation, a relative to one of our members and a Santa Cruzan." But they don't agree on much of anything else.
Ryan says the success of a Levi Strauss reproduction of the original shirt five years ago, which sold for over $100 a pop and clung to Paris Hilton's waifish frame on a 2004 cover of Elle magazine, made him begin work in earnest on the trademark. Though club members Mayo and Bob Gillies, who died last summer, agreed to allow the Levi's reproduction, they received a donation to the surfing museum and free T-shirts (which were far too small for the men) instead of any real compensation. Ryan saw this as part of a trend. "Businesses sold stuff with 'Santa Cruz Surfing Club' on it that weren't even in this community. I didn't know who they were," he says. "Nothing was coming back here, nothing came back to my grandpa, nothing to Harry. They didn't know what a trademark was, they're too old."
Ryan is in no uncertain terms an ambitious and business-savvy young man. In 2004, he caught wind of another surfing memorabilia collector's interest in the trademark and decided he had to move quickly. In the application, he asserted that as a descendant of an original member he was in a perfect position to assume the trademark and rights, and on Aug. 22, 2006, the patent and trademark office agreed.
"When I got into the application process, I obviously let my grandpa know, we let Harry know, Bob Gillies, and those were the only three that cared," says Ryan. "No one else gave a rat's ass about the club." About the same time the application was approved, Mayo and Ryan signed two contracts that Ryan drew up. They gave the "Santa Cruz Surfing Club" sole rights to distribute, sell and use the photos in Mayo's home collection, and named Ryan as the full owner of any rights to "property and history attached to the Santa Cruz Surfing Club."
The formal complaint alleges that Ryan showed up at Mayo's door unannounced several times to confuse Mayo and bully him into signing over rights to his photos. This stings Rittenhouse Sr. in particular, as he joined Ryan on one such visit and is mentioned in the complaint. "It sounded like we banged down the door and rushed in," he says indignantly. "You don't go to someone's house without calling first."
In any case, Ryan owned the trademark and the rights to the photos peacefully, at least for a short time. He made a few T-shirts and tried selling them at a Santa Cruz Longboard Union event. After some success, he decided to pursue the venture as his full-time job.
In Ryan's original plan, Santa Cruz Surfing Club would be the name of a commercial company that gave a certain percentage of the profits directly to a nonprofit entity known as the Santa Cruz Surfing Club Alumni, representing the original members.
But when Ryan began treating the SCSC name as a commercial entity, things began to unravel.
"I had to design an apparel company based around the original club and make it appealing to the outside," he explains. That meant designing a catalogue of apparel with the club name, but different logos and designs, and ones that skewed to a younger audience, including splashier graphics, girls' boyshort panties and other products that he designed himself.
Mayo says he began to feel things were spinning out of control. "[Ryan] was going great guns and he was going very fast, and I thought he was going too fast," he says.
Mayo says the turning point for him came when he realized he'd signed away the rights to call the club and the members by their original name. "My buddy Bob Gillies called me and said, 'I don't think this is right, I think we should get out,' and I agreed with him," says Mayo. "We finally realized that we were no longer the Santa Cruz Surfing Club. Ryan was. That was the end. That was it right there."
The feeling he'd been duped put an end to friendly relations, though Ryan says he was unaware of that until he was invited to what he thought would be an uneventful meeting in the fall of 2006. "I show up at a meeting and find out that there's lawyers there representing Harry Mayo," says Ryan. "That was when Dan Young basically accused me of stealing the logo. It was like, who are you?"
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Clubhouse: Ryan Rittenhouse organizes Santa Cruz Surfing Club merchandise in his Center Street warehouse.
Get Off My Wave
The Santa Cruz Surfing Club Preservation Society is a newly minted nonprofit headed up by well-known local surfing advocates Boot McGhee, Dan Young, Kim Stoner and Pat Farley. Though recently they've spent most of their time securing permission to run the Santa Cruz Surfing Museum now that the cash-strapped city has pulled out, they were initially brought together by Harry Mayo as the new generation of members of the SCSC. In essence, the Preservation Society is the Santa Cruz Surfing Club--except they're not allowed to call themselves that.
Dan Young remembers seeing a surfer catch a wave at the river mouth for the first time in the early '60s, when he was just a kid with his parents. "It was like, ahhhhhhh," he says, injecting his forearm with an imaginary needle. "Surfing was it. I started surfing whenever I could."
Young belongs to Santa Cruz's second generation of surfing. While the original members were busy building their businesses and raising their families, the '60s, '70s and '80s brought a new generation to the sport. For Young and the 13 other " new" members of the Santa Cruz Surfing Club, the times couldn't have been more different.
"It was the age of crystal meth and acid, of course," says Boots McGhee. "I feel surfing actually saved my life."
McGhee and Young were both instrumental at different times in the Santa Cruz chapter of the environmental group Surfrider and became involved in many different surfing-related causes, like the lighthouse museum and statue. Over time, they ran into the original members more and more.
"The older generation is the greatest generation, and I just don't think you mess with that," says McGhee. "They lived the life we've always wanted to live."
Mayo says that as more and more original members got older and his anxiety over what was happening with the trademark increased, in 2007, he and Bob Gillies decided that the club needed some fresh blood. "We needed help," he says. "So we recruited some of the young guys, who were happy to help and were glad to become members of the Santa Cruz Surfing Club."
"It was such an honor," says Kim Stoner, who is a founding member of the Longboard Union and has become a club historian for the '60s, '70s and '80s.
Young became a spokesman for Mayo and the original club, and the new guys put their energy into finding a way to wrestle the Santa Cruz Surfing Club name and logo back. Ryan says he was blown away by the sudden change. "Harry got put into the corner. They made him feel like he did something bad by signing the contracts," he says. "They accused me of stealing and defrauding people."
Ryan says that he tried to negotiate with Young, the new club members and the lawyers to preserve his original business plan with the alumni model. While the complaint acknowledges that at one point, Ryan set up an account with $500 in the SCSC Alumni fund, it denies that any money from the business was every proferred. Ryan says at one time he offered $5,000 to the alumni account to smooth things over and that he "bent over backwards" to try to negotiate with the new surfers. "We probably offered more than we should have and it was just a big F-you in my face every time," says Ryan. "It became very clear to me this wasn't about working with the original members."
What Mayo and Young wanted, and what Ryan was not offering, was the trademark, not a business partnership where the original members had to call themselves "alumni."
To Young and Mayo, not being able to call themselves the Santa Cruz Surfing Club is the biggest insult of all. "They don't want it so they can raise money. Why can't they use their own name? It's their club," says Young.
Ryan believes that Young wants to capitalize on the commercial potential of the business, and that's why he stopped negotiating. Young says he is operating according to the original members' wishes, and that any money will go to the nonprofit SCSC Preservation Society, not to anyone's private bank account. And he says they're just trying to repair the damage. "Like one thing that really stood out was, Ryan put the logo on girl's panties. That's not something that generation would ever think of doing, that's really embarrassing to them," he says. "Ryan says he's into this to preserve the history and stuff, but he does not fundamentally understand what these guys are about."
The two sides stopped speaking, and the lawsuit was filed on Dec. 30, 2008, on behalf of Mayo and the SCSC Preservation Society. Mayo's lawyer, Steven Johnson, another lifetime surfer, agreed to take the case pro bono. He says that since the club name was used by Mayo and the original members commercially long before Ryan was even born, and since they are still living and operating, Ryan has no case. "He claimed to own it," says Johnson. "For Mr. Rittenhouse to say, 'I'm the club, you're not, and you can't use your own name anymore,' that's not right."
Busted Buddies
The argument has already had ramifications. When the city tried to close the surfing museum, the SCSC Preservation Society argued that if it owned the trademark, it could fundraise on the museum's behalf--and with donations from surfing community members like Jack O'Neill, the Preservation Society has in fact raised enough to keep the museum open. A book about surfing in Santa Cruz has hit a snag in confusion over whether or not the author can use Mayo's photo collection. Ryan's apparel company has lost business and he has garnered a lot of unwanted attention.
"I'm getting threats every day. Someone tried to break into my car," says Ryan. "I filed the stuff for the trademark to hopefully bring this back to Santa Cruz and get it out of the hands of all these people using it for their own benefit. The same thing they're saying I'm guilty of now." But he says he's invested too much time and money to back away now.
The case will likely be heard in a San Francisco court in the next year. Johnson plans to ask the judge to expedite the proceedings, in light of Mayo's advanced age (though Mayo says, "They gave me 15 years when they opened up my heart. I said, is that all?"). Even so, Pinky Pedemonte's Parkinson's disease is making his life more and more difficult, Doug Thorne frets that he's still too thin after recovering from pancreatic cancer and a couple other members have already slipped into dementia.
Mayo and Rittenhouse Sr. continue to hope that the charges of misrepresentation and elder abuse can be settled out of court, but they also agree that it's probably "too late" for their friendship. They have strayed far away from what the club was supposed to be about in the first place: camaraderie. "Things have changed," says Mayo. Rittenhouse Sr. has arguably already lost the most, now that he's no longer feels he's a welcome part of the club, though he deals with it with a charismatic calm. "I always cared for the friendship, I loved to talk about it, but when you're 80 years old, I hope they remember me for more than the surf club.
"If it's gone, who cares? Kids will still go surfing, whatever happens."
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Wal-Mart says it earned $5.6 billion, or $1.67 per share, in the quarter ended Jan. 31. That's up from $5.16 billion, or $1.50 per share, a year earlier.
Net sales rose 3.9 percent to $127.1 billion.
Earnings topped estimates of $1.57 per share, but net sales fell short of the $127.8 billion estimate.
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the dorms are double occupancy and make you feel like home with all of the ammenities.
Academic Rigor
teachers assist you in being a successful student. class sizes are adequate and academic eligibilty are very important to have faculty who care about your successes. angel online is available for you to monitor your class results.
Tips for prospective students
look at community colleges first to complete your general education courses. take a look at the college in marshalltown to possibly continue on to play athletics after high school.
In three sentences
this is a college that treat you like you are important to them. this college is the perfect size to allow instructors to help me attain my education goals easily. the location of the campus makes it very accessible for me to be able to enjoy the community of marshalltown.
Nathan from Eldora, IA
Reviewer is A past student here.
1 out of 1 people found this review useful. 5 of 7
Categories Comments Tips for prospective students
Come take a look for yourself MCC is a great place to start your college career and you will not regret it.
Bang for the buck
The greatest part of MCC is the money that I saved. With scholarships and grant, and MCC low tuition I will not have any loans when I graduate from there.
Did enjoy being here
I truly did enjoy getting to go to MCC. All the staff and students were great to be around. Everyone was so welcoming and helpful I felt right at home. I would recommend this college to anyone.
Did learn a lot
I learned a lot while at MCC and it was a great place to start my college career! I gained much more self confidence and feel that I am better prepared for the next step in my life.
Kamil from Marshalltown,, IA
Reviewer is A current student here.
1 out of 1 people found this review useful. 6 of 7
Categories Comments Great for these types of students
It's great for any type of student because the teachers are so welcoming and treat the students very well. There is also a lot of diversity so anyone can feel comfortable! I love it here, specially for athletics!
Tips for prospective students
Great school! It's a very good and inexpensive way of getting the top quality education you need to move on to the next step of your life.
Reviewer is A past student here.
1 out of 3 people found this review useful. 1 person found this inaccurate. 7 of 7
Categories Comments Great for these types of students
Students that want to hate there college experience! :)
Did enjoy being here
Absolutelyyyyyy NOT. This is exactly why im writing this review is to recommend everyone to chose any school BUT Marshalltown community college. The staff is ridiculous, and could careless about any student there. The population is so small, and let me tell you.. ive traveled around the country so im very used to seeing different ways, people, and cultures.. but when u go to Marshalltown your entering a whole new world full of Drama oriented kids.. and there is nothing happy or fun about this school. If I knew this I would never have gone to this school. Not the college experience your looking for. More like a middle school experience if you want to compare it to something.
Did learn a lot
Same as any school. It's just smaller. And you barley get any work.. so i dont know how you would learn anything.


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When the topic of winter weather home maintenance comes into focus, the emphasis is typically put on preventing frozen and broken water pipes, a common issue that homeowners experience in the cold months that can escalate into a full-blown water loss if not taken care of properly and promptly. But one other aspect of winter weather home maintenance that homeowners need to be aware of is ice dams.
In April 2010, the EPA Renovation, Repair, and Painting Rules (RRP) went into effect regarding renovation, repair and restoration in homes and other structures that might contain lead paint. Since that date, there have been several lawsuits filed by environmental and consumer groups. As a result of those lawsuits a number of significant changes to the program. The RRP program impacts so many homes and other structures in virtually every community in the United States, it is important to understand the changes and how they affect you.
Over the years, there has been an abundance of misconceptions and non-truths involving property damage and restoration procedures. Professional restoration companies are trained to see beyond the misconceptions and misinformation that often complicate a claim. If someone doesn't act quickly enough or doesn't take the right actions due to these misconceptions, they can end up with even more damage to deal with, that could have easily been avoided.
Whenever property is damaged by water, it is essential to dry that property and all contents as quickly and effectively as possible. In the past, water damage restoration contractors had few options available to them when performing water damage restoration. Equipment was limited in its availability, variety, efficiency, and effectiveness. Mitigating water damage and restoring structures to a pre-loss condition was often ineffective.
Restoration professionals are often asked if they are able to remove cigarette or tobacco smoke odors. For instance, a home may need to be deodorized when it is being sold; an apartment may need the service between tenants; an automobile may need odor removal; etc.
Due to the recent floods throughout the United States, much of the nation has experienced violent weather in recent months and literally millions of people have had a deluge (rain or flood) hit their community! These storms have resulted in water damage impacting hundreds of thousands of homes. If that water damage is not dealt very quickly and professionally, the inevitable result will be mold.
In today's homes, finished flooring materials are becoming more popular than carpet. This changes how we handle the restoration process, as a result of water damage. How the flooded material will be taken care of is dependent upon the following circumstances: response time, flooring type, replacement value, type of wood, type of finish, method of installation, amount of moisture, and the degree of water damage already evident.
Dealing with the aftermath of a fire is difficult for a few reasons. If you are cleaning up after a home fire, it is both mentally and psychically tough. You are looking at what may be left of your home from the fire damage. In 2009, there were 377,000 residential fires in the United States, or 78% of the total number of structural fires, a residential fire occurred every 84 seconds, and $7,796,000,000 of property losses from fire damage occurred in residential properties, alone.
Flood situations are never something to mess around with. They often require professional restoration services. The biggest concern is drying everything as quickly as possible to restore the property to pre flood conditions. Concrete is often challenging to dry because it has unique properties in flood conditions.


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1937 Adler Rennlimousine Competition Coupe
Winning its class at LeMans in 1938, and 7th overall, this 1937 front wheel drive German car is from the Adler company that made cars from 1900 to 1957. They later became part of Auto Union.
In 1996 it was an award winner at the Pebble Beach Concours D'Elegance. Temporarily owned by the Blackhawk Collection and shown at the 2001 Meadow Brook Hall Concours d'Elegance http://www.mbhconcours.org/ , it has now found a home in Jay Leno's Big Dog Garage. http://www.jaylenosgarage.com/your_garage/cars/7363.shtml
Jim, who discovered the car in Southfield, Michigan wrote this on the H.A.M.B.
"I've got one for all of you guys that might qualify as the rarest. It's a 1937 Adler Streamliner that raced at Lemans in 1937 and 1938.
It was also used to "inspire" the 1963 split window Corvette. When I first saw it in a shed in Southfield Michigan I thought it WAS a 63 Vette. GM stole the design for the 63 vette.
The owner went to the 60 or 61 Michigan state fair in this car and a exec for GM was there and gave him his card and asked him to bring it to the GM Vandyke design center. He thought they were going to buy it so he had someone follow him over there. When he got there they had him pull it on the cobblestoned turntable. There were three camera's on tri-pods around it and they spun the car around a few times and told him thank you for coming by. He was PISSED that they led him on and did not buy it.
It sounded pluasible since the design was SOOO close. A few years later I had met David Holls at a car show and asked him about the 63 Vette story. He invited me to his home, when I went there he had an extensive library and a binder on the Adler (and several on the Vettes) which included some of the pictures from the cobblstone turntable that Rubin had told me about!
I asked about Rubins claim that the 63 vette was taken from this car and he said that my answer was in the clay model prototype pics. He said to check the dates on all of the "older" style clay model pics, then look at the clay model pics of the clay Vettes the next few weeks AFTER the day the Adler was on the turntable. After comparing it became obvious that the designs changed radically right after Rubin's visit with the Adler. So I asked David directly WAS the split window Vette design taken from this car. He looked at me with a smile and shook his head yes, but at the same time said "absolutely not"!!
The car did also turn out to be a Lemans Race car just as Rubin had said it was. It raced in 1937 and 1938 and won it's class and came in 7th overall in 1938. Adler was the only Jewish owned car manufacturer in pre-war Germany and were some of the first cars to go down the autobahn in a big ceremony with Hitler present, so who knows. .. First closed car, and first streamliner, and first wind tunnel designed car to race at Lemans (designed by the same man who designed the Chrysler Airflow) and the first woman to drive at Lemans.
the Blackhawk Collection had it restored at the prison resto shop in Arizona.They tell me that the car is now in a private collection in Europe. I still have a letter from Baron Fristz Hueske Von Hanstein who raced it with Madamme Annie Iteire in 1937. He tells me about them being blackflagged for improper fueling and him then having to "console" Annie in her tent for hours and hours."
_______West Peterson, EditorAntique Automobile (AACA) http://forums.aaca.org/f169/1937-adler-rennlimousine-competition-272656.html


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Suffolk, ss. Division of Administrative Law Appeals
Alan McDonough,
v. Docket No. CR-06-1034
Quincy Retirement Board,
Appearance for Petitioner:
Frank J. McGee, Esq.
1952 Ocean St.
Marshfield, MA 02050
Appearance for Respondent:
Michael Sacco, Esq.
Law Offices of Michael Sacco
285 College Highway, P.O. Box 479
Southampton, MA 01073
Administrative Magistrate:
Kimberly A. Fletcher, Esq.
Alan McDonough is appealing the November 6, 2006 decision of the Quincy Retirement Board denying his request for member-survivor benefits (Ex. 1). He appealed timely under the provisions of G.L. c. 32, § 16(4) (Ex. 2). I heard the appeal on December 19, 2007 at the offices of the Division of Administrative Law Appeals, 98 North Washington Street, Boston. There are 11 documents in evidence (Exs. 1 - 11). I marked the pre-hearing memorandum of the Petitioner as "A" for identification and the pre-hearing memorandum of the Respondent as "B" for identification.
There was no testimony. Both sides gave oral argument. There is one tape of the hearing. Petitioner's post-hearing memorandum received on January 3, 2008 was marked "C" for identification.
Findings of Fact
1. Alan and Claire McDonough were married on August 21, 1976 (Ex. 5).
2. On February 21, 1996, Claire McDonough filed a Complaint for Divorce in Norfolk Probate and Family Court. The Complaint alleged that Alan McDonough, on or about January 26, 1996, "did intentionally strike the Plaintiff about her head and face several times causing her physical harm." The Complaint further alleged that Alan McDonough had been "cruel and abusive…on many other occasions throughout the marriage." Claire McDonough sought and received a 209A restraining order (Exs. 7 and 8).
3. On February 27, 1996, Alan McDonough, through his attorney, denied that he intentionally struck his wife causing her physical harm and denied that he had been cruel and abusive on many other occasions throughout the marriage (Ex. 9).
4. Claire McDonough, d.o.b. 2/15/53, joined the Quincy Retirement System on May 30, 1996 after previously working in the Boston Police Department, the Quincy School Department and the Quincy Hospital. In her New Member Enrollment Form dated May 9, 1996, she designated Matthew McDonough, her son, as the 100% beneficiary. Claire McDonough completed another New Member Enrollment Form on September 19, 1996. This showed a membership date of September 20, 1996 and also designated her son, Matthew McDonough, as her 100% beneficiary (A, B).
5. On January 28, 1997, the 209A restraining order expired (Ex. 7).
6. Alan and Claire McDonough last lived together on or about December 5, 2002 (Ex. 11).
7. On October 27, 2003, Alan and Claire McDonough signed a Separate Support Agreement wherein they agreed to dismiss the divorce action filed in 1996 (Ex. 11).
8. Claire McDonough resigned from her position as a Paraprofessional with the Quincy public schools effective September 2, 2005. Upon her resignation she had 13.9 years of creditable service with the Quincy Retirement System and became a member inactive (A, B).
9. Claire McDonough died in Florida on or about April 4, 2006 (Ex. 5).
10. On July 17, 2006, Alan McDonough requested of the Quincy Retirement Board any benefits due him as the surviving spouse of Claire McDonough (Ex. 5).
11. On November 6, 2006, the Quincy Retirement Board denied Alan McDonough's request, concluding that his conduct towards his spouse "should be considered moral turpitude" (Ex. 1).
12. Alan McDonough appealed (Ex. 2).
Conclusion and Order
The decision of the Quincy Retirement Board denying Alan McDonough's request for a member-survivor allowance is affirmed, but not for the reason that the Board gave.
General Laws, c. 32, § 12(2)(d) provides, in pertinent part:
If a member dies before being retired without an eligible beneficiary other than the spouse of such member nominated under this option, or, notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (a) of subdivision (2) of section thirteen, if a member in service as described in paragraph (i) of paragraph (a) of subdivision (1) of section three who has not less than two years of creditable service dies and leaves a
spouse to whom such member had been married for not less than one year, or if a member dies within thirty days following the date the retirement of such member became effective without an eligible beneficiary nominated under Option (c) of this section, an election may be made by such spouse to receive the member-survivor allowance under this option; provided, that said spouse and the deceased member were living together at the time of death of such member, or that the board finds that they had been living apart for justifiable cause other than desertion or moral turpitude on the part of the spouse.
Examining the first clause, I assume that Claire McDonough died before being retired since she was under age 55 and had fewer than 20 years of creditable service. There was no evidence that she retired with an option election. She had nominated, however an eligible beneficiary other than her spouse. The parties stipulated that she had designated her son as her 100% beneficiary. So the provisions of the first clause do not apply.
The second clause beginning, "if a member in service," does not apply because Claire McDonough was not a member in service when she died.
The third clause beginning, "or if a member dies within thirty days," also does not apply because Claire McDonough did not die within 30 days following retirement, since she died before being retired.
Since none of the conditions have been met, Alan McDonough is not eligible to elect a member-survivor allowance under § 12(2)(d).
The Quincy Retirement Board's position, that Alan McDonough is not entitled to the benefit "because his conduct towards Claire McDonough constituted moral turpitude" is not valid. It is true that Claire McDonough, in 1996, alleged that her husband hit her several times, causing her physical harm. It is also true that her husband denied the allegations. Later the couple apparently reconciled and lived together. Allegations in a complaint of divorce fall far short of demonstrating moral turpitude.
Based on the foregoing, the decision of the Quincy Retirement Board denying Alan McDonough's request for a member-survivor allowance is affirmed. The Board shall make payment to Claire McDonough's son pursuant to the provisions of G.L. c. 32, § 11(2).
Kimberly A. Fletcher
First Administrative Magistrate


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FREEHOLD, N.J. - September 10, 2013 --Officials say the number of suspected mumps cases in Monmouth County has grown to 36.
Lab tests confirmed one of the suspected cases was mumps.
Most of the cases have been linked to D'Jais Bar and Grill in Belmar. The popular Jersey shore establishment voluntarily closed last week and 32 employees were given the mumps vaccine.
County health coordinator Michael Meddis tells the Asbury Park Press the median age of those under investigation is 26. All but one are adults and 39 percent of the cases are females.
Information from: Asbury Park (N.J.) Press, http://www.app.com


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Sometimes a person will move to Hawaii and ask me about finding a Sensei. They often say that they have practiced a certain style of Karate and want to continue in that style.
I know many of the Sensei in Hawaii. Quite often, a newcomer to our islands might live very close to a fantastic Sensei of a different style. I will try my best to recommend that they visit the Sensei's dojo but they will often refuse.
Think about it. A person might have learned XYZ style for a few months or even a few years from an instructor on the mainland. That instructor might have even been quite junior. I will try to refer them to a very senior Sensei, sometimes one that is one of the top Sensei in the world, and they will decline because they want to remain in the same style.
Style is not that important!
Let me put it this way, a person might have learned from an 8 and I am recommending that they visit a 100 -- but they would rather continue with a 6 in the same style.
Please don't get me wrong. I do not prefer one style over another.
Let us say that Chojun Miyagi was still alive and living in Hawaii. If someone asked me, I would recommend that they visit his dojo -- not mine! I don't care that they might want to learn Shorin-Ryu. Who could pass up the opportunity to learn from Chojun Miyagi?
And when I press for details, sometimes the student might tell me that they do not want to lose their rank -- such as a green belt -- by changing styles. If you have been reading this blog for a while you will already know my answer to this.
Finding a good Sensei is infinitely more important than any rank issues -- or style issues, for that matter.
Charles C. Goodin
Finding A Sensei -- Part 5
Sometimes a person will move to Hawaii and ask me about finding a Sensei. They often say that they have practiced a certain style of Karate and want to continue in that style.
Posted by Charles C. Goodin on Tuesday, October 31, 2006


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